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Garage? My house isn't even on a street. 😜

I don't keep computer components in my garage because it isn't environmentally controlled.

wiretap wrote on 2020-02-18, 20:09:

I don't keep computer components in my garage because it isn't environmentally controlled.

Yes, people who want to solder stuff together usually work outside or in the garage.
A well ventilated room. Unless you have the convenience of a well ventilated facility.

that's why fume extractors were invented ^^

What's in your garage?

WHAT? Who's asking? What have you heard? I KNOW MY RIGHTS.

Mostly power tools, PA equipment, DMX lights, my lovely collection of Pearl Free-Floating snare drums that I don't ever get to bang on, bins of vaguely organized cables (VGA, DVI, USB, FW, Ethernet, Coax, RCA, HDMI, TS, TRS, XLR, power, IDE, SATA, SCSI...) It's a disaster area, but it's home.

wiretap wrote on 2020-02-18, 20:09:

I don't keep computer components in my garage because it isn't environmentally controlled.

Mine is, but it's a little like those open-air cold storage displays at the supermarket. It's... "temperature controlled". I can usually keep it above 60F in the winter. I do wood-working out there (building stuff), but mostly in the summer. In the winter, it's just a place to store bulk items.

Intel486dx33 wrote on 2020-02-18, 20:22:

Yes, people who want to solder stuff together usually work outside or in the garage.
A well ventilated room. Unless you have the convenience of a well ventilated facility.

Uh oh. Well, I guess I know how I'm gonna die. My work space is in a spare bedroom, along with my vintage PCs, vintage game consoles, vintage 90s synths... I left enough room to sit down in the middle though.

What many of these Silicon Valley computer people had in common was that they were all looking for the “Perfect computer”.
An all-in-one computer that could do it all.

Hence my “iPad”.

SirNickity wrote on 2020-02-18, 21:13:

wiretap wrote on 2020-02-18, 20:09:

I don't keep computer components in my garage because it isn't environmentally controlled.

Mine is, but it's a little like those open-air cold storage displays at the supermarket. It's... "temperature controlled". I can usually keep it above 60F in the winter. I do wood-working out there (building stuff), but mostly in the summer. In the winter, it's just a place to store bulk items.

Yea I can't do that where I am. It gets up to 100F degrees in the summer, and sometimes down to -20F in the winter. Not good at all for storage, especially on BGA and fine BGA chip mounting.

Intel486dx33 wrote on 2020-02-18, 21:23:

What all these Silicon Valley computer people had in common was that they were all looking for the “Perfect computer”. An all-in […]
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What all these Silicon Valley computer people had in common was that they were all looking for the “Perfect computer”.
An all-in-one computer that could do it all.

Hence my “iPad”.

What machines do you think are used to develop the software you use on your ipad? Other ipads?

jmarsh wrote on 2020-02-19, 01:37:

Intel486dx33 wrote on 2020-02-18, 21:23:

What all these Silicon Valley computer people had in common was that they were all looking for the “Perfect computer”. An all-in […]
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What all these Silicon Valley computer people had in common was that they were all looking for the “Perfect computer”.
An all-in-one computer that could do it all.

Hence my “iPad”.

What machines do you think are used to develop the software you use on your ipad? Other ipads?

Steve Jobs breathed on the first iDevice, the firmware flashed itself, and a new age was born.

Newly renovated mine about a month ago. OK, not the walls or bench as those are from 1958, but put in industrial warehouse steel shelving, bought about $500 worth of plastic bins for everything 🤣, and put in new lighting. The empty spaces are where my 3x Pentium III towers go + a NEC ~140kHz CRT monitor (working on those at the moment).

I also horde PVMs (though mine are not as nice as some of yours!). Except I don't have a garage, I instead live in a ~700sq ft apartment downtown in a city. My other not-in-current-use computer stuff is kinda spread out here and there (couple closets, and a couple small overflow piles here and there ...). Will have to collect it all together for a group shot, haha.

and here I am with two PVMs that I still don't know how I even managed to get just these two ^^

Video switches by that tape deck?

Gered wrote on 2020-02-19, 11:12:

I also horde PVMs (though mine are not as nice as some of yours!). Except I don't have a garage, I instead live in a ~700sq ft apartment downtown in a city. My other not-in-current-use computer stuff is kinda spread out here and there (couple closets, and a couple small overflow piles here and there ...). Will have to collect it all together for a group shot, haha.

Those are just the ones that I'm not using at the moment 😉 Have a 32" Panasonic MultiFormat (240p, 480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i and a bunch of PC resolutions actually - still need to test all it can do), multiformat BVM-D20, a PVM-20M4 I TATE in my den, and a couple native-480p Plasmas I game on.

imi wrote on 2020-02-19, 12:34:

and here I am with two PVMs that I still don't know how I even managed to get just these two ^^

Those took me ~3 years to collect, probably on Craigslist and other sites/apps 2-3 hours a day for that entire time searching them out. I think I cleaned up the entire NYC/Philly area because I've barely found any in a year (well, ones which aren't close to eBay prices at least).

gdjacobs wrote on 2020-02-19, 16:45:

Video switches by that tape deck?

Next to the S-VHS player are video scalers, transcoders and converters and such. The video 32input/32output matrix switcher is above the white iMac G4. All those are backups for my server rack with all my audio/visual stuff + consoles.

You really should scale down. I'll send you my address where you can dispose of a few. 😉

I mean there are a few BVMs for sale here right now... in the range from €700 to €3000 so yeah... no, hence why they are still for sale ^^
I pretty much already asked all people I know in production environments and they made the switch away from CRTs ages ago, I really went into this too late.

my storage is very unorganized right now, gotta buy some shelving before I'm able to make it presentable ^^
glad to see someone else hoarding extron stuff though 😉

imi wrote on 2020-02-19, 20:38:

I mean there are a few BVMs for sale here right now... in the range from €700 to €3000 so yeah... no, hence why they are still for sale ^^
I pretty much already asked all people I know in production environments and they made the switch away from CRTs ages ago, I really went into this too late.

Yeah, I ended up grabbing most of mine in 2015, and even that was late to the game (I had a couple shipped to me actually as a result ... risky!). The JVC one I drove 5 hours round trip to pick it up (got it for a good price plus I got to test it out before forking over the money, so I'm happy). Also have a 20" Ikegami not pictured, but it's a rackmount model that I cannot really use in my setup that well, so I kinda want to get rid of it. Honestly, I need to downscale my collection. I also have 2 PC CRT monitors. Too much stuff, not enough space! If I had a garage, or basement, or attic or something then this might be less of a problem, but my small apartment only has so much room, haha.